I have a bunch of these ST250LT007 Seagate drives (the same Momentus line of drives, but with no encyption) and they work just fine. However, 4K advanced format drives are not supported in FOG yet. You’d have to use FOG .33 (beta still) to image those drives. That is what I am using now and it is working. The beta is not “feature complete” yet, but 4K drive imaging works.

I’d recommend downloading the beta release to a spare system and doing a few image tests. You could report your success/failures to this forum post:

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/bugs-in-fog-0-33.631/page-4#post-3691[/url]

If you need help getting the latest beta release down, just let me know.

Have you tried setting the image type to “multiple partition image - single disk (not resizeable)”? This usually works for everything.

[quote=“astrouga, post: 3670, member: 907”]Sounds like you need to modify your existing DHCP server so it can point to your FOG server:

[url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Modifying_existing_DHCP_server_to_work_with_FOG[/url][/quote]

This should do the trick

If you do try the .33 beta please provide feedback on your experience/thoughts to the thread above

[quote=“InjecTioN, post: 3642, member: 1175”]This solution would be even better![/quote]
[B][URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/attachments/dp_install_tool-txt.94/’]yeah its in the DP_Install_Tool.txt[/URL][/B]

Jigar:
I would use the multiple partition option. Leave the OS set to Windows 7. It never fails.

I think kirksec is right regarding the single partition settings. I have only ever been able to get it to work in that situation. In the past it was always problematic for me so I stopped using it.

–astrouga

Well I solve my own problem! Tends to happen a lot.

The problem ended up being the Bios version wasn’t supported, and it was the latest and greatest.

The fix, I remembered an option in Clonezilla to use PXE boot. So for the giggles I booted off the Clonezilla CD, selected iPXE boot. then FOG started working, but an error came along saying “unsupported bio’s version”. So i let it sit for a little bit, under 2 minutes and it just started going! It’s imaging the computer right now as I type.

I find this quite remarkable and think it should be sticky’d. This will help a lot of people with these problems.

Yes, it kinda defeats what FOG is trying to accomplish, but hey it still beat going through all the lines of clonezilla to get an image rolling.

And my other error was due to my user in FOG being the same on ubuntu, same password and all. So that’s all fixed and ready to go!

From what I read about it on other sites, youre better off using FOG for storage. Is that for backup purposes?

Hello,

If your computers are all the same, you can use FOG. I’m doing this already with Optiplex, etc.
Here is what I do : [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deploy-error-0xc000000e-boot-selection-failed-because-a-required-device-is-inaccessible.462/#post-2210[/url]

Excellent! Glad that worked out for you. 🙂

Hello there,
any solutions to the problem?? I’m having the same problem now.

I took the WD harddisk from one of the GX745’s that worked, put it in the GX755 that has the issue, then reimaged with the same image, works fine; I then took the Seagate harddisk that was originally in the GX755 and put it in the GX745 and tried to reimage, and it works as well…go figure, am totally confused as to why FOG images the Seagate fine in the GX745, but not in the GX755…

Hi Mark
I have exactly the same problem and know for fact that it’s not the FOG service.
I finaly fix it by putting the password for account in registry under HKLM\software\microsoft\windows NT\current version\winlogon
I setup the key called DfaultUserPassword.

there is a program called windowsautologin.exe that does all that for you.
I also noticed that the password will be removed from registry after the number of autologon is over.

I appreciate if you tell mw what solution you found.
thanks

Please clarify. It works when you unicate upload/download, but not when you multicast?

Try putting in a * and windows will give it a random name, and after that fog will rename it accordingly

I know it has been a little while but I had to shelve this project temporarily. I was able to correct the issue by setting the image type to “Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not resizeable)”

Thanks,

Kyle

After doing some more testing i found that i get this error on Seagate Barracuda ST3250312AS drives which have the 4k advance format (Note: there is something also called Western Digital Advanced Format and Dell Advanced Format) From my testing it seems Windows Vista or Windows 7, disk alignment is correctly forced by the OS and for windows xp you will need to create an image on for this drive type Align the disk with an alignment tool (For example the Paragon Alignment Tool, a third party product, has been used by many) then Sysprep the image. The release of 0.33 fog should resolve this when ever released. Microsoft has also developed a patch for this [URL=‘http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982018’]here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982018 [/URL]